{"id":3009,"date":"2014-10-19T19:40:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2014-10-19T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T04:24:06","slug":"a-new-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=3009","title":{"rendered":"A New Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"D&D.<\/a>

D&D. Stephen & James broke out a new campaign tonight and had Faith join them. Something about needing more characters to fight monsters alongside them or something. It was so nice tonight to feel like we could blog and play. Yay for sleeping toddlers!<\/p><\/div>\n

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I bought some new entertainment this week. Grace, Garnet and Samuel spent quite a bit of time playing together. The time away is (as always!) bonding them closer.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Oh<\/a>

Oh Chick-Fil-A – I so do love your yummy grilled wraps and BBQ sauce.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Shoo<\/a>

Shoo Fly Pie. Samuel and Isaiah spent one evening practicing saying that. \ud83d\ude42 Yummy, but super densely sweet!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I spent many hours holding Isaiah upright to keep him comfortable. He was so swollen form the waist down after his surgery. Can you see how his feet are totally opposite to how they were when we left home a month ago? Amazing! Plus, who doesn’t love the striped casts?<\/p><\/div>\n

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It rained so hard that the roof in our century plus house leaked – fortunately, only into the master shower.<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week. \u00a0Oh, last week.<\/p>\n

We all just felt like we were barely holding on. \u00a0But we made it. \u00a0We made it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Isaiah did his semi-retreat tonight as we readied him for bed and prepared for tomorrow at the hospital. \u00a0But he had just had a really, really normal sort of day, and it wasn’t more than a minute or so and he settled in for sleep \u00a0This weekend just got better and better. \u00a0We slept, ate, played, caught up on some schoolwork. \u00a0Stephen’s back is even unknotting little by little.<\/p>\n

So thankful to head into this week feeling like we have a bit of margin. \u00a0Hoping that when he realizes that he won’t be having surgery, just cast changes and brace fittings, he’ll settle in to his routine there. \u00a0His routine involves a lot of unhappiness, but it is familiar by now and hopefully he’ll be able to process that.<\/p>\n

The other kids are really doing so much better. \u00a0Colds have passed. Play has resumed and they are talking about things they want to do. All good things.<\/p>\n

Surgery weeks are always tough but this one seemed to pile it on, but we weren’t alone. \u00a0I have been so thankful for friends and family who came alongside us these past days. \u00a0You all mean so much to us. \u00a0When we felt at our most exhausted and stretched, you kept us focused on the fact that we weren’t walking through this alone.<\/p>\n

Please keep on praying for Isaiah’s heart. \u00a0While his body seems like the most vulnerable part of him, his sensitive spirit is struggling to hold on.<\/p>\n

My prayer this week has been thankfulness for God’s care for my little boy. \u00a0Just like Mephibosheth, God hasn’t forgotten my Isaiah. Not for one day of his life. He took a little boy from a rural area in China and brought him through a series of seemingly random events to a family in Canada, and is being treated by two of the foremost teams of specialists for his arthrogryposis in the whole world. \u00a0How can I doubt His care for me too? \u00a0His goodness in our exhaustion? His tenderness in my need to control? \u00a0And for those scholars out there that would like to point out the fact that this passage illustrates a common middle eastern tradition of restitution, that is true. But to me, he was a man whom everyone had forgotten. \u00a0Maybe even, Mephibosheth<\/em>, thought he was forgotten. \u00a0But he didn’t escape God’s notice. \u00a0Nope. he was brought to the forefront of the king’s household and cared for with honour for the rest of his life. \u00a0I take so much joy in these words. \u00a0God knows our needs. \u00a0We aren’t journeying alone through life. \u00a0As long as we draw breath, His eye is on us and our story is not over. \u00a0Good stuff to contemplate, yes?<\/p>\n

2 Samuel (2 Samuel 9:1-13):<\/em><\/p>\n

9 David asked, \u201cIs there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan\u2019s sake?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

2 Now there was a servant of Saul\u2019s household named Ziba. They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, \u201cAre you Ziba?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAt your service,\u201d he replied.<\/em><\/p>\n

3 The king asked, \u201cIs there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God\u2019s kindness?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ziba answered the king, \u201cThere is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

4 \u201cWhere is he?\u201d the king asked.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ziba answered, \u201cHe is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

5 So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel.<\/em><\/p>\n

6 When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor.<\/em><\/p>\n

David said, \u201cMephibosheth!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAt your service,\u201d he replied.<\/em><\/p>\n

7 \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid,\u201d David said to him, \u201cfor I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

8 Mephibosheth bowed down and said, \u201cWhat is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul\u2019s steward, and said to him, \u201cI have given your master\u2019s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family. 10 You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master\u2019s grandson may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.\u201d (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)<\/em><\/p>\n

11 Then Ziba said to the king, \u201cYour servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.\u201d So Mephibosheth ate at David\u2019s[a] table like one of the king\u2019s sons.<\/em><\/p>\n

12 Mephibosheth had a young son named Mika, and all the members of Ziba\u2019s household were servants of Mephibosheth. 13 And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king\u2019s table; he was lame in both feet.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week. \u00a0Oh, last week. We all just felt like we were barely holding on. \u00a0But we made it. \u00a0We made it. Isaiah did his semi-retreat tonight as we readied him for bed and prepared for tomorrow at the hospital. \u00a0But he had just had a really, really normal sort of day, and it wasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,17,54,53,48,15,21,20,39,29,13,14,23,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}